Rediscovering the British World

Phillip Buckner, R. Douglas Francis

• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Year: 2006
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781552384381
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

Rediscovering the British World is one part of an ongoing attempt to approach British Imperial history from a different viewpoint, placing the colonies of settlement at the centre. Editors Phillip Buckner and Douglas Francis have included nineteen essays from expert scholars in the field, which cover a broad range of cultural, social, and intellectual topics in British imperial history from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The essays focus on the history of Britain and the Empire, with considerable emphasis on the self-governing dominions of Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. They attempt to show the centrality of the Empire in the history of the nations created by the British diaspora overseas, while at the same time calling into question the extent of the existence of a "British World." The goal is not to wax nostalgic, but rather to re-examine the complex phenomenon of this far-reaching empire and to shed light on the ways in which it has shaped our world. With contributions by: James BelichFrank BongiornoBettina BradburyPatrick H. BrennanPhillip BucknerElizabeth ElbourneR. Douglas Francis Jeffrey GreyCatherine HallJohn LambertDouglas LorimerDavid LoweStuart MacintyreAdele PerryPaul PickeringSatadru SenR. Scott SheffieldPaul WardStuart WardWendy Webster

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Bibliographic Information
• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 1: What Did a British World Mean to the British?
• CHAPTER 2: The Rise of the Angloworld
• CHAPTER 3: Indigenous Peoples and Imperial Networks in the Early Nineteenth Century
• CHAPTER 4: Loyalty and Rebellion in Colonial Politics
• CHAPTER 5: From Victorian Values to White Virtues
• CHAPTER 6: Colonial Comparisons
• CHAPTER 7: Interlocuting Empire
• CHAPTER 8: The Long Goodbye
• CHAPTER 9: Fabian Socialism and British Australia, 1890-1972
• CHAPTER 10: War and the British World in the Twentieth Century
• CHAPTER 11: The Other Battle
• CHAPTER 12: Empire and Everyday
• CHAPTER 13: Britishness, South Africanness, and the First World War
• CHAPTER 14: The Migrant's Empire
• CHAPTER 15: The Empire Answers
• CHAPTER 16: Rehabilitating the Indigene
• CHAPTER 17: Australia's Cold War
• CHAPTER 18: History Wars and the Imperial Legacy in the Settler Societies
• CHAPTER 19: Worlds Apart
• END NOTES
• NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX
• Back Cover
• Front Cover